David, what was "determined" based on my reading of the posts is that height is not a reliable indicator for use in determining when an index needs rebuilding since size alone can require that the index be in a certain number of levels. -- Mark D Powell -- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of thump604@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:43 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: index rebuild There was some recent discusison on here regarding rebuilding indices based solely on height. Is this a good criteria to use in determining what indices to rebuild: height is greater than 4 percentage wasted space on deleted entries compared to active entries is greater than 20% percentage of deleted entries compare to active entries is greater than 20% Should any other critera be followed and could indices be flagged under this criteria and still don't necessarily need to be rebuilt. Thought and opinions please... Thanks -- - David ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------